Square Samuel-de-Champlain

About

The Samuel-de-Champlain Garden is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

Situation and access: Located along Gambetta Avenue and the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, the site is accessible by 18 Gambetta Avenue. It is served nearby by metro lines 2 and 3 at Père Lachaise station and 3 and 3 bis at Gambetta station.

Origin of name: He was named after the navigator and geographer Samuel de Champlain (1574-1635), who founded Quebec City in 1608.

History: Created in 1889 between the Père-Lachaise cemetery and Gambetta Avenue, the garden extends over 13,192 m2 and takes the name of "Samuel-de-Champlain Garden". It hosts the Monument to the victims of the Revolutions, dating from 1909, made by Paul Moreau-Vauthier with the stones of the original wall of the Fédérés bearing traces of the bullet strikes. At the bottom left is engraved the following inscription:

"What we are asking for in the future, what we want from him, is justice, not revenge! »

— Victor Hugo As soon as the municipality ordered the work in 1907, an intense controversy arose because of the grouping of the victims of this monument, the consensual title...